CONTENTS
Preface ........................................................................................ xi
Acknowledgement ...................................................................... xiii
Transliteration of Arabic Letters .............................................. xv
Chapter One Pre-Islamic Arabia: Poetry, Tribal Rivalry
and Heroism (800 B.C.–610 A.C.) ...................................... 1
Introduction ............................................................................ 1
Biblical Connections .............................................................. 1
The Land and the People .................................................... 3
Social Organization and Settlement Patterns ...................... 4
Arabian Civilizations .............................................................. 10
Trade and Finance in Makkah ............................................ 21
The Bedouin in Islam .......................................................... 24
Chapter Two The Birth of the Islamic State:
Economic Thought in the Qur"àn and Sunnah
(610 A.C.–632 A.C.) .............................................................. 30
Introduction ............................................................................ 30
Sources of the Islamic Economic Thought .......................... 32
Economic Thought in the Qur"àn and the Sunnah .......... 37
Basic Philosophy .................................................................... 37
Application of Basic Philosophy ............................................ 44
Islamic Economics in the Qur"àn and Sunnah and the
Present Time ...................................................................... 89
Chapter Three Economic Thought of the Rightly Guided
Caliphs (632 A.C.–661 A.C.) ................................................ 92
Introduction ............................................................................ 92
The Caliphate ........................................................................ 93
The First Caliph Abù-Bakr (632–634) ................................ 95
The Second Caliph Umar (634–644) .................................. 99
The Third Caliph Uthmàn (644–656) ................................ 116
The Fourth Caliph Ali (656–661) ........................................ 120